Hi all! First-time posting here, and I’m unsure where else to ask this. I just moved to Sapporo, and I love the idea of handkerchiefs, but I’m not sure how you’d dry it after use? After drying your hands after the bathroom for example. If you put it in your pocket or your bag, not only does it stay wet, it also gets everything else wet. It’s not sopping, but it’s damp enough that it’s a single-use imo. I don’t see a lot of Japanese people hanging them off their bags either. Can someone help explain?
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Use the hand dryer in the rest room to try it out?
If you make a point of buying good absorbent hand towels, you won’t need to dry them because they pretty much do the job themselves. Also you can buy little pouches to carry them around, so they’re not getting soiled in your handbag.
Towels are better than hankies because they don’t need to be ironed.
Shake your hands after you wash them so you get as much water off as you can, then dry your hands. I usually carry another hand towel to use when the first one gets too wet. I hang my towel on my desk drawer at work to dry. If I am out and about, I put the wet towel in a mesh pocket on the side of my bag to dry.
It’s a mystery to me as well so I am keen to hear.
I picked up a souvenir washcloth and discovered that it’s absorbent like a towel, but small like a hanky, so you can get your hands the last bit of dry after shaking them off, without it really getting wet. So that’s my go-to now.
Wear it like a loincloth, and let the warm breeze demoisten it.
I usually bring them in my bag but it doesn’t make my things get wet, because the handkerchiefs hold moisture. If you are worried about moisture, why don’t you buy a small Ziploc at a 100-kin store?
Yea I don’t get the point of using handkerchief to dry my hands. I just leave it to collect dust in my bag until someone else needs it.
I dry my hands on the air dryers or just shake them dry. If you don’t like how the dryers are blowing dirty air, there are disinfectants stationed everywhere anyway.
If you shake your hands after washing them, there should be little to no wetness on the handkerchief.
I think better quality hand towels don’t feel single use. I use ones from FrancFranc and don’t feel like it’s “wet” after using it 🙂
I put it in my handbag after use tho, I can imagine putting it in your pocket would be quite different
LOL what kinda question is that
Best IMO are the towel type from Feiler. Once I was given one of these I never went back to another brand
Two towels from the 100¥ shop is enough. And keep a packet of the throwaway citrus-infused face and body paper wetnaps also.
only letting a tiny bit of water run over your fingertips to avoid the handkerchief from getting too wet seems to be a common solution /s
It’s a damn hand towel, not rocket science. Most people put it back in their bag or pocket.
I guess you could attach a grommet to it and connect it to your backpack with a carabiner? This is assuming you wear a backpack and are that dedicated to drying your handkerchief. This is something I thought about doing but never actually implemented.
Get the towel type instead. i just put them back in their bag & put it in the laundry when I get home and bring a new one out next time. I have about 10 of them I use in rotation because of this.
If your hands really get wet, then just bring a bigger size
microfiber hand towels
Just do as the Japanese do and don’t wash your hands, then you can save the handkerchief for when you’re sweating profusely on the train